Mediocre at Best

the-cleveland-showAside from a hilarious rap scene, where Cleveland Brown proves he can freestyle with the best of them, last week’s episode of “The Cleveland Show” was nothing to marvel about.

Continuing the trend on the show thus far, things are just weird.

In previous episodes, we’ve seen the writers attack Don Rickles and other celebrities, but this week, they try and address the topic of teenage sex.

What the end message is and what the point of the entire 21-minute show is still uncertain however.

Instead, rather than come to any type of funny conclusion [watching this show, you almost forget about what real comedy truly is] you’re forced to deal with several annoyances.

First off, the congregation at church has to stereotypically comment after everything the pastor says [even he finds it annoying after a while] early on and there just seems no point in it.

If that wasn’t enough, Tim the Bear’s comments about Jesus- that aren’t in the least bit funny, logical or comprehensible. And while anyone who knows anything about the NFL can appreciate and get a small kick out of a Michael Irvin joke, it’s not even close to being enough to get this show to tread water. It’s like the show goes out of its way every week to aggravate the audience with jokes that don’t work.

Sure, seeing Cleveland and his son spend time together and head to the comic-con is fun and some of the things afterward manage to save the episode, but in the end, the show still fails to cut the comedic mustard.

Overall, most of the characters are still too bland and too flat to capture our attention.

Makes you wonder how this show got extended for a second season.

Seth McFarlane just has it like that I guess.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14262 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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